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by ponco 792 days ago
oh my goodness, TIL nonce has a technical meaning. It has a very different meaning in Australia.
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banish-m4 792 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

In general, it's a made up one time value. In this case, it satisfies an additional property.

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bananapub 792 days ago
beats only knowing the other meaning: https://www.joe.co.uk/comedy/nonce-finance-responds-to-ridic...
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cqqxo4zV46cp 792 days ago
I myself improve my crypto code with rock spiders all the time!
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wittierusername 792 days ago
Despite finding out about "nonce" as a technical term when I was reading around PHP like 3 years ago, I still can't not react to it every time lmao
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